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Buy or Bid Sale 199  29 September 2016
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Lot 192

Starting price: 1400 USD
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Hadrian; 117-138 AD, Cistophoric tetradrachm, Phrygia, Laodiceia ad Lycum, 10.63g. Metcalf Type 58; bust var. of BM-1066, C-275 (30 Fr.), and RIC-497. Obv: HADRIANVS - AVGVSTVS P P Bust draped, cuirassed with head bare r. Rx: COS - III Zeus, draped to feet, standing l. holding eagle and scepter. Very rare with this draped and cuirassed bust type: only two specimens recorded by Metcalf, both from the same obverse die but a different reverse die than our coin. Traces of overstriking, possibly on a cistophorus of Augustus with reverse bunch of six wheat ears, in right obverse field and right reverse field. EF
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